Ernst Ulrich Deuker

Ernst Ulrich Deuker ( born July 13, 1954 in Trier ) is a German bass and bass clarinetist. He became famous with the band ideal.

Work

The mid- 60s, he had his first musical steps with his brother Martin, Eberhard Pilaski and Michael Frings in groups like Amunition Chest or chaos. 1968 Arno received his first bass guitar. Back in the early 1970s he founded in Berlin together with his brother Martin, the political rock band Pinkerton. During this time he began to be interested in jazz, but a quick trip to the Berliner Fusion Scene ended in an artistic dead end.

1979 first met the New German Wave lineup ideal; In 1980 the first album Ideal, 1981, produced by Conny Plank album The serious side of life. This was followed by tours and festivals at home and abroad ( Roskilde, and the Montreux 1982 ) and various television appearances. In early 1983, the band parted ways, though, the third - by Micki Meuser produced - Ideal album, BiNuu ' about 150 000 times sold.

In the 1980s and 1990s Deuker initiated several interdisciplinary alternative projects such as The Optical concert (multimedia live performance in collaboration with the painter and book illustrator Gabo ), or Kae E and Cabel Dance Band. There were occasional studio and concert Jobs ( Alphaville, The Two ). In between, he worked as a chef ( in Berlin's gourmet restaurant Paris - Moscow or in the studio for the Rain Birds) or worked as a cheese producer in the Alsatian Vosges. After attending a concert by Howard Johnson Deuker discovered in 1982 his interest in the bass clarinet. It took him two years to raise a suitable copy of this unusual instrument.

Since the early 2000s he worked as a bass clarinetist amplified together with jazz musicians; he played with Theo Jörgensmann, Christopher Dell and Michael Jüllich. 2004 Arno was also the frontman, vocalist, guitarist and bass clarinetist of the avant- pop project " EU COMMISSION " ( album Night Songs, Night Songs, 2004, Below Recordings).

Since 2009 Deuker plays with Theo Jörgensmann in Deep Down Clarinet Duo.